I hate First Great Western and the fact that I have to use them.

I am sick to the back teeth of paying so much of hard earned cash into the pockets of First Great Western (known hence forth as #failgreatwestern).  This is the most common site on my daily commute to London.

So I am going to make it my mission to try and help as many people as possible limit the amount of cash they have to pay them.

I need to get a train to London every day but if you don't then try these sites for your cheap public travel needs.

• National express for the most extensive network of inter city busses
• Megabus for the cheapest public transport deals in the UK
• ZipCar if you can drive but don't own a car

And finally if you really must book a train journey then read this article from the Mirror and make sure that your train travel is as cheap as possible How to get cheap train tickets.

Leave my Star Wars Alone

Mr Abrams please take heed of this message.  Star Wars is part of my heritage, I can't remember a Christmas between 1980 and 1990 where I did not avidly await to see it on TV.

Disney take heed or I shall personally picket your offices all over the world and throw EWOK shaped bundles of poo at your employee's.

Rage!

When free does not actually mean free? - Apple Newsstand

This is not an Apple hate or love piece, I love my iPad and my Nexus 7 with equal measure and I think they both bring great joy to my life and I also spend real (paper) money on the odd (paper) magazine namely Ride Magazine and Fast Bikes Mag (gotta plug the pulp every now and again).

So I have been doing a lot of research recently for my full time gig on what the best pricing structures are on the Apple newsstand and I have noticed a curious issue that is annoying a lot of users in relation to NewsStand.

It appears that a lot of users are becoming enraged at theprospect of downloading a free app container app only to realise that they then have to pay to get access to the actual content.

Here is a sample of the complaints below which were taken from a great article about this phenomenon here on slackstory.

I don't think this this is a great conspiracy but if the Tin says free then it should be free.

For example on the newsstand today the image below shows 4 free magazines but only one of them is actually Free.

Surely the answer is simple keep the Free stuff and the paid stuff separate, you will then have a lot less complaints from your users and more people will trust and use the Apple Newsstand...Which I still think is an amazing product.

Come on Apple, you know it makes sense.

Cavendish Tour de France

Why do we need to have Britain's two best hopes for jerseys at the Tour de France on the same team?

I would love to see both Mark Cavendish and Bradley Wiggins challenge for Jerseys at the Tour de France but as this article states http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/cavendish-not-eyeing-tour-de-france-green-jersey having Mark Cavendish on the same team as Bradley Wiggins reduces our chances of challenging for both jerseys.

Come back HTC all is forgiven.

Is Strava missing the point of cycling

There have been a few reports recently about the family that are suing Strava for the death of their relative.  http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/family-sues-strava-for-cycling-death-34299/

Surely the point of cycling is the enjoyment and if you want to compete it should be in a safe and controlled environment that someone has scoped out before hand.

Can you imagine if there was a Strava for cars or motorcycles?

I will stick to cycling for fun and fitness.

English Person Joke

It has come to my attention that some clever little puppy has made the phrase English Person rank in search for this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunt.

If I was an English Person I would be very upset about this but I am Scottish so I find it very funny.

My wife is an English person though and will probably be very upset about this.

Sorry

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